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“A biography of great immediacy. . . . There are many sections of great poignancy, many funny things, many of electric intimacy and candor . . . there is spellbinding power, never more so than in describing Cheever’s death, pages that are both terrible and deeply moving; one is losing an old, beloved friend.” —James Salter, Los Angeles Times Book Review “John Cheever: A Biography is ...
Mar 5, 2009 · John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born.
Mar 1, 2009 · The other thing that happened to Cheever’s reputation was that it was hijacked by revelations about his personal life. In the ’80s it began to emerge that Cheever, who was married with three ...
John Cheever has 277 books on Goodreads with 147386 ratings. John Cheever’s most popular book is The Stories of John Cheever.
Jan 1, 2009 · Blake Bailey is the author of biographies of Philip Roth, John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, and a finalist for the Pulitzer and James Tait ...
In 1981, he was discovered with a Kidney tumour. Later in the year, he was diagnosed with cancer that had spread to his femur, pelvis, and bladder. He died on June 18, 1982, at the age of 70, and was buried at First Parish Cemetery in Norwell, Massachusetts. John Cheever, May 27, John William Cheever was a well-known novelist and short story ...
Mar 24, 2009 · Twenty-seven years after his death, the life and work of writer John Cheever are once again in the spotlight. The award-winning author is the subject of a thick new biography — Cheever: A Life ...
